“This morning we saw pictures of the Warsaw ghetto at Yad Vashem and this evening we are going to the Ramallah ghetto.”

German Bishop Gregor Maria Franz Hanke during a visit to Ramallah in March 2007.

Basking in their usual insolence and self-absorbedness, Israeli leaders have been visibly irate over the highlighted commemoration of the 60th anniversary [...]

(A talk given on the First of March 2008 at Invitation to Learn’s weekend retreat) At the left, “Innocent” by Ben Heine

“They (the Palestinians) will bring upon themselves a bigger holocaust because we will use all our might to defend ourselves” (Matan Vilnai, Israeli Deputy Defence Minister, 29 February 2008)

It is clear beyond any doubt [...]

What you don’t see on CNN and Fox:

In June, 1942, in reprisal for the assassination of the Nazi commander Reinhard Heydrich, the Germans carried out a murderous rampage of murder and terror throughout Czechoslovakia. The small Czech village of Lidice bore the brunt of the German revenge, with the SS killing all the men, deported all women and children and razed [...]

At least 32 45 children and freedom fighters massacred today, Saturday, March 1st, 2008, and counting.

The late few hours witnessed a very dangerous stage in the Israeli war of Holocaust against Palestinians.

More than 65 78 martyr (at least 1/3 of them are babies and children) and more 200 injuries since last Wednesday.

Here is what they [...]

And once again Israel shows its awe and emulation of Nazis. (That does not mean they will stop exploiting the Holocaust of European Jews for their own purposes: No matter what we do unto others, WE are the victims…)

A senior Israeli minister today warned of increasingly bitter conflict in the Gaza Strip and [...]

German intellectuals: Israel’s creation made Palestinians victims of Holocaust

Last update - 10:43 19/02/2008 | Haaretz
By Cnaan Liphshiz

A group of visiting German intellectuals called on Berlin on Monday to change what they termed its Holocaust-rooted blind support of Israel, saying the creation of the State of Israel turned Palestinians into victims of the Nazi Holocaust as [...]

A must read interview:

An interview with Hedy Epstein

By Silvia Cattori

11/01/08 “ICH” — Hedy Epstein, is a German Jewish Holocaust survivor, born in 1924, whose parents were sent to Auschwitz in 1942, where they perished. In 1948, Hedy Epstein went to live in United States. In 2003, she decided to make a trip to Palestine. Shocked [...]

A warning to readers, the below article contains graphic passages.

In January of this year, my teenage daughter and I went to an event in Los Angeles sponsored by Women in Black at which Hedy Epstein*, a Holocaust survivor, ardent anti-Zionist, human rights worker spoke. Hedy did not speak of her own biography today, but from [...]

There are plenty of noteworthy articles that are missed every week. To give them credit and rescue them from going unnoticed by my blog readers, I will try to compile some of these articles every weekend in a ‘Weekend Read’ post. Here is the first one:

1. The Holocaust as political asset
By Amira Hass (Source: Ha’aretz)

Turning [...]